Models
Microsoft AI ships MAI-Transcribe-2 speech recognition
Microsoft AI said on 3 Sep 2026 that MAI-Transcribe-2 is available to demo in Microsoft Foundry, the MAI Playground, and Open Router. The company says the model adds speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, keyword biasing, verbatim/clean styles, and code-switching, and claims first place on FLEURS across 60 languages (avg WER 5.2%) plus the Artificial Analysis accuracy-latency Pareto frontier — those rankings are Microsoft’s citations as of the post. Launch pricing is $0.10 per hour of audio through year-end; this is Microsoft’s STT stack, not Muse Voice Transcribe and not ElevenLabs Scribe.